The Most Anxious This Poltical Season - What is a Concerned Mother to Do

The Republican Party is being burdened as the refuge for an aging racist elite that is trying to hold on to their disappearing privileges. Can such a backward looking interest group remain loyal to the interest of the party of big business and the new class of the global super-wealthy? I doubt it! We may soon see a reconfiguring of our two-party system with the a formation of the Reactionary and the Conservative parties. The concept of Liberalism has all but disappeared – even the diehard Liberals are now all calling themselves Progressives which is a left of center version of conservatism. But do not feel complacent – out of the ashes a new Phoenix arises. The Multitudes are milling about.

Whites are the most anxious group this political season - Thomas B Edsall – ‘Limited War’, The Nation Nov 2010 p15

Preferring the life of society is a hindrance to a man’s willingness to devote himself to a family life – the solution is to reduce social opportunities – furnished rooms, boarding houses, cafes, brothels etc at least among the working classes – women are restricted to the household – the attentive mother becomes man’s salvation “the privileged instrument for civilizing the working class - Jacques Donzelot – The Policing of Families, 1979 p36)

The uniqueness of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the age of media is that it cannot be represented – it cannot be mediated. That does not mean that they don’t try – they takes large scale models of it on tour around the country.

It [a work of art then currently being exhibited at the Kensington] shows that the person who produced it had seen everything and practiced everything, and misunderstood everything they saw, and misapplied everything they did… and misunderstanding of everything had passed through them as the mud does through the earthworm, and there at last was their worm-cast of production – John Ruskin – The Genius of John Ruskin, 1963 p365

The family is not only the basic unit for the recruitment of labor but also the basic unit of consumption – thus it is the fundamental unit both of the sociological and economic processes. A well functioning family is hence critical to the well being of the state.

You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both – John Ruskin – The Genius of John Ruskin, 1963 p177

These lakes (actually sinkholes) ranging in depth from 17 to 90 feet, were formed when circulating underground water dissolved salt and gypsum deposit to form subterranean caverns. The illusion of great depth and their greenish-blue color is created by algae and other aquatic plants covering the lake bottoms

Knowledge… separates, in bitterness, hardness and sorrow, the heart of the full grown man from the heart of the child. For out of imperfect knowledge spring terror, dissension, danger and disorder – John Ruskin – The Genius of John Ruskin, 1963 p290

I bought two pairs of slacks and a Pendleton shirt in Roswell at the JS Penny store where you can still fine odd length pants. Another mosquito drowned (or maybe it cooked) in my coffee – I’m using the bowl as I broke the mug getting my computer out at MacDonalds . But it was of no avail for they had no electrical outlets. The dog and I have already done our daily hike, we walked the Bluff Trail all the way to the big lake and we have now finished our breakfasts and he is asleep.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great-civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the man – Divided into mere segments of men – broken into small fragments and crumbs of life – John Ruskin – The Genius of John Ruskin, 1963 p180

Every industry, all careers
Are special interests
And since everything
    Is an industry
And everyone has a
    Career
As well as an estate
Everything and everyone
    Lobbies
Effectiveness is determined
    Only by quantity
If only we would afford 15 minutes
    A day for the kids’
         Quality time
Prey to God that everything
Will turn out Ok
And pass the ammunition
    Will turn out Ok

And pass the ammunition



The great modern works of political science all provide tools for transforming or over throwing the ruling powers… Today, however, the majority of political scientists are merely technicians working to resolve the quantitative problems of maintaining order – Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri – Multitude: war and democracy in the age of empire, 2004 p33